Guest iamapig Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 (edited) hello guys i downloaded all 5 cds i586 and when i try to boot this what happens... i boot from the cd fine and it tells me to press enter for install... so i press enter. but then it just restart the computer and comes back to the boot screen again and again i press enter and does the same think... over and over. it doesnt form the kernel i believe. i looked all over the internet but couldnt find a solution to this problem. any comments? i have p4 2.8 with MSI-MS 6577 motherboard Edited December 2, 2004 by iamapig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Check you didn't have a bad download or burn of the CD's: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=32853 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iamapig Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 sums are good... i checked them before i burned them... i updated my bios too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giroeneleje Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 (edited) Your not the first. I had the same exact problem. I would boot from cd1 and it would show the mandrake install splashscreen (where it asks to press enter to install). I would press enter and then it goes to the "loading program into memory" screen. But I never made it past that screen, when the bar was almost full, it would change to a black screen saying "sending termination signals" and then it would reboot and the whole process would repeat over and over again. You dont even have to press enter at the splashscreen, if you wait a few seconds it will start the process automatically. I would sit for hours watching it do this on its own over and over again. Anyway, I kept on thinking it was the cdrom drive or that the cd's were burned the wrong way, but finally I decided to check the memory. Sure enough it was the memory card. I changed the card and it installed with no problem..... Edited December 2, 2004 by giroeneleje Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iamapig Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 gironeleje what do you mean by changing the memory card??? you ,ean i dont have enough ram to run it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giroeneleje Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 No, my memory card had gone bad. I tested it on another machine to verify this and indeed it was no good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iamapig Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 iam sorry but i dont know what you mean by memory card in the computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 I think he said that his RAM is bad, so he replaced it and it boots up fine. Ah the vagaries of technical English in different country :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giroeneleje Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 (edited) Sorry I was thinking in Nintendo terms. But Yeah I meant my 184-Pin 512MB DDR PC2700 RAM stick. Edited December 3, 2004 by giroeneleje Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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